Foch in command : the forging of a First World War general / Elizabeth Greenhalgh.
Foch in command : the forging of a First World War general / Elizabeth Greenhalgh.
Foch in command : the forging of a First World War general / Elizabeth Greenhalgh.
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Publisher
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Date
2011.
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N940.41244/5
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Language
English
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Physical content
xviii, 550 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
Pt. 1. From theory to practice -- "He held to the last quarter hour" : with Ninth Army on the Marne -- Commander-in-chief's deputy in the north, October-November 1914 -- The end of the war of movement and reflections on 1914 -- Second Artois, January-June 1915 -- Third Artois, June-October 1915 -- T...
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Publisher
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2011.
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- HISTORY / Military / General
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Summary
"On 7 August 1918 the president of the French Republic raised General Ferdinand Foch to the dignity of marshal of France. Foch had reached the pinnacle of his military career. Less than five months earlier, on 26 March 1918, he had been chosen by unanimous consent of the British and French military and political leaders to be generalissimo of the A...
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Foch in command : the forging of a First World War general / Elizabeth Greenhalgh.
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Cambridge military histories.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N940.41244/5
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74Vvv6Pg7WjO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vvv6Pg7WjO
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ISBN
0521195616 (hardback)
9780521195614 (hardback)
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940.41244092 B
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991007417479702626
